UEFA thanks ousted Rubiales while hosting women's soccer leaders

Jenni Hermoso was kissed without consent at the World Cup final; the incident is under criminal investigation in Spain and has caused significant distress to affected players.

In the same breath that UEFA convened women's soccer leaders to discuss the future of their sport, the organization paused to thank its departing vice president — a man who had kissed a player without her consent and spent three weeks refusing to apologize. The juxtaposition, unfolding in Switzerland the morning after Luis Rubiales resigned, laid bare a tension as old as institutions themselves: the gap between the values an organization proclaims and the loyalties it quietly protects. For the women in that room, the work of being heard had never felt more necessary — or more fraught.

UEFA thanks ousted Rubiales while hosting women's soccer leaders

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